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Overcoming Writer’s Block

So for the past several months, I’ve been afflicted by the worst case of writer’s block I’ve ever had. Unable to write anything, I spent months trying different methods (similar to trying to cure insomnia, which I also have a lot of experience with) with no luck. At the end of April, I finally hit on something that I could write a few thousand words a day without stopping or pulling out my hair.

I’m now at 290,000 words of a large project that I’m hoping will shape up into a really funny, sexy space romp. It’s not at all what I had intended to write. I know I’m a year late on the fourth Star Valley book, but considering that this time last year I was almost certain I couldn’t write anything anymore, 290k words is a vast improvement.

I work every day on it, more than full time. I have no idea when it will be available because I don’t know how long it will be but I’ll make an update on my progress.

I hadn’t wanted to say much publicly about it, because I felt announcing that I couldn’t write anymore might be a rash decision and once I started working on something exciting again, I was too afraid to jinx it. But I think at a comfortable 290K words (most books are 75-100K words so it’s at least three books worth of material) it’s safe to announce that I CAN still write SOMETHING. But, as usual, I can’t guarantee you’ll like it.

I can guarantee that I like it enough to lock myself in my bathroom for 10 hours every day to work on it.

It’s a project I had planned to write a LONG time ago, kept shelving it, and then when I just couldn’t think of anything else, I started sketching out some characters for it. I already have covers because I bought these covers before I even released Burnout.

So just to give you SOMETHING, here are the three covers that I ordered for the series way back in the day (which was 2013, by the way, when I had these made).

It’s been a blast writing it. I really feel like I’ve turned a corner and I hope to have an excerpt prepared in a readable format sometime before Christmas.